describes the lateral leaflets as sometimes bipartite, show- 

 ing a tendency in the leaf to become digitate. Another 

 anomalous feature in A. anomalum is the stigma, which is 

 not capitate as usual in the genus, but composed of a 

 pencil of spreading hairs. 



A. anomalum was discovered by Mr. Curtis, of the 

 Botanical Garden, Penang, in the Laret Islands, in the 

 Straits of Malacca, from whom tubers were received in 

 1883 which flowered in the Royal Gardens in March, 1890. 

 —J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Male spadix; 2, male flower; 3, androgynous spadix; 4, ovary; 

 5, the same cut open vertically ; 6, ovale : — all enlarged. 



